HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Nov. 3, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Shop-Rite Supermarkets, Inc., NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Improper Disposal
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Nov. 3, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14012, row:5151)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Shop-Rite Supermarkets, Inc., reported that an employee improperly discarded an electronic signature device which contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 12,172 individudals. The ePHI involved included names, telephone numbers, dates of birth, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. The CE also retrained its staff.